my top level directory has many files and folders of the order of thousands. so i don't think "find" might be such a good idea. btw, does it have an option to search recursively ?
On Jul 12, 12:31 am, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 8, 1:50 am, sinbad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hi, > > > i've a huge files. i want to open any file without actually entering > > the > > full path of the file.my idea is to have a full path file names in a > > file > > and i want vim to search through the file for the matching string i > > enter > > and use that path to open the file. how can this be achieved or are > > there > > any better ways of doing this. > > I have a vim script that basically consists of a bunch of :set path > +=some/commonly/used/path statements. I :source this in my .vimrc. > When I want to open a file in one of these commonly used directories, > I just use :find filename.ext (or :sfind or :tabfind). Would this > approach work for you? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
